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Continuum Analytics, the premier provider of Python-based data analytics solutions and services, announced today the release of the latest version of Anaconda, its premium collection of libraries for Python. Anaconda enables big data management, analysis, and cross-platform visualization for business intelligence, scientific analysis, engineering, machine learning, and more. The latest release, version 1.7, adds VTK, Mayavi, and Bokeh to the distribution, as well as updates IPython to 1.0 and MatPlotLib to 1.3.

Available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, Anaconda includes more than 90 of the most popular numerical and scientific Python libraries used by scientists, engineers and data analysts, with a single integrated and flexible installer. It also allows for the mixing and matching of different versions of Python (2.6, 2.7, 3.3), NumPy, SciPy, etc., and the ability to easily switch between these environments.

Highlights to the latest version of Anaconda include:

Added VTK, Mayavi, Bokeh

Updated to IPython 1.0, MatPlotLib 1.3, LLVM 3.3

Many improvements and bug fixes to conda

A comprehensive, detailed list of changes to Anaconda in version 1.7 can be found in the change log.